PERSON: Kristina Schake

Hillary for America

Deputy Communications Director

Kristina Schake is co-founder and principal of Griffin|Schake, a California-based public affairs and strategic communications firm. She is a seasoned expert in helping major foundations, non-profit organizations and civic leaders bring about critical social change through policy, legislative, social marketing and media initiatives.

Kristina Shake served as Special Assistant to the President Obama and Communications Director to the First Lady Michelle Obama. Ms. Schake also served for several years as the senior communications strategist for First Lady Maria Shriver, the Women’s Conference and the California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities Initiative. Ms. Schake and her company also helped make issues such as stem cell research and early childhood education a national priority and helped change California’s political landscape on renewable energy and civil rights.

Before forming her firm, she was the Director of the Governor’s Summit on Obesity and the Communications Director for First 5 California, which provides education, health care, child care and nutrition programs for the state’s youngest children. A native Californian, Kristina is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University.

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